Brandolini's law aka bullshit asymmetry principle

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/540171a

Goodhart's law

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

https://archive.org/details/ImprovingRatingsAuditInTheBritishUniversitySystem/page/n7/mode/2up

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html

Parkinson's law

published in 1955 by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson as an essay in *The Economist.*

• "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion",
• the number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other.

Lindy’s law

• the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
• Eg; if you want to build something that needs to survive 50 years, look back 50 years and see what survived